The Right to Food Virtual Library catalogues the information according to five Programme Areas that are strategically important for the implementation and enjoyment of the Right to Food:
Capacity:
- Advocacy,
- Curriculum,
- Educational Tools,
- Empowerment, and
- Training.
Information comprises human rights training manuals, multimedia clips, school and university curricula, advocacy materials, e-learning modules, and reports about right to food campaigns.
Assessment:
- Impact analysis,
- Food security situation analysis,
- Public budget analysis,
- Situation analysis, and
- Vulnerability analysis.
This area contains documentation that includes hunger and vulnerability mapping, food security indices, policy planning and early warning tools, knowledge management strategies, etc.
Legal framework:
- Entitlements,
- International Law,
- Obligations,
- National Legislation, and
- Recourse mechanisms.
This area holds documents about national legislations, recourse mechanisms, lessons learned from access-to-justice projects, best practices in institutional strengthening, and implementation strategies of human rights commissions, etc.
Policy:
- Coordination,
- Economics,
- Institutional policy,
- Nutrition and food security, and
- Strategy.
Available documentation illustrates how the Voluntary Guidelines are used in policy and strategy planning, and include examples of rights based-policies and programmes, lessons learned from school feeding, farmer field schools and house garden programmes.
Monitoring:
- Analysis,
- Indicators,
- Institutional capacity,
- Methodologies, and
- Targets.
It includes progress reports on the Millennium Development Goals, nutrition indicators, institutional performance measurements, international and in-country monitoring, e.g. project benchmarks and indicators of the treaty monitoring bodies.
This version of the Right to Food Virtual Library contains more than 620 documents that can be used free of charge.